What Are You?

What are you?

Tender thing, of smiles

And salty tears

And years

What are you?

Wink of wonder

Wild, intense

Then disappears

What are you?

Vale of wishing

While we touch,

Taste, then let go

What are you?

Ever hurried

Yet in childhood

Oh.

So.

Slow.

What are you?

Merry moment filled

With living’s

Little strife

What are you?

Ah, yes, yes, methinks

You are that thing

Called life

© Janet Martin